Check printer and recorder



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W. W. 85 W. H. WYTHE. CHECK PRINTER AND RECORDER.

No. 491,626. Patented Feb. 14, 1893.

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WILLIAM WV. VYTHE AND VlLLlAM H. VYTHE, OF ORANGE, NE\V JERSEY, ASSIGNORS TO THE NATIONAL OASl-I REGISTER COMPANY, OF DAYTON,

OHIO.

CHECK PRINTER AND RECORDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 491,626, dated February 14, 1893. Application filed February 16, 1891. Renewed February 12, 1892. Serial No. 421,286. (No model.)

ing upon checks or tickets, and also upon a record-strip, the amounts of sales in stores restaurants and like places; and its novelty' consists in the new constructions, combinations and modes of operation of the various parts, all as will be hereinafter set forth and specifically pointed out in the claims.

ln the accompanying drawings Figure 1 represents a vertical section of our improved machine approximately on the' line 1-1 of Fig. 3; Fig.2 averticalsection approximately on the line 2-2 of Fig. 4; Fig. 3 a front elevation of the machine with a portion of the easing broken away to expose the parts within; Fig. 4 a vertical section approximately on the line Lt--a of Fig. 1; Fig. 5 a top-plan view part of the casing broken away and some of the parts removed; Fig. 6 ahorizont-al section of the machine approximately on the line G- 6 of Fig. 2.

The same letters and numerals of reference are used to indicate identical parts in all the figures.

The working parts of the machine are inclosed in a box or casing A provided in its upper side with an opening S through which the numbers upon one of the wheels hereafter described may be seen, and in its forward side with a vertical slot 3 through which projects a shaft 2, provided on its front end with a knob or thumb-piece 4. This shaft is journaled at its rear end in a frame 1, which frame is fast upon and carried by a shaft 1 journaled at its opposite ends in the sides of the casing, as seen in Fig. This pivotal arrangement of the frame 1 permits the front end of the shaft 2 to be raised and lowered in the slot 3, the shaft operating as a lever with the frame 1 or shaft 1 as its fulcrum.

A spring 12, Figs. t and 5, connected at its front end to the casing and at its rear end to the lower end of an arm 12n depending from the frame 1 yieldingly holds up the front end of the shaft 2. type-wheels 5 and (i and also a numbered wheel or indicator 7 whose numbers are adapted to be exposed singly through the reading opening S before referred to. By

turning the shaft 2 the different n umbers upon 6o the type-wheels may be brought to the printing point. A pawl 11 spring-pressed into engagement with a toothed wheel 10 fast upon the shaft 2 in rear of the type-wheel G, Figs.

1, 2 and 5, yieldingly holds the shaft and 65 wheels in the different positions to which they may be turned.

Journaled in a frame beneath the typewheels are two spools 19 and 20 upon which is carried a strip of paper 22 led from one to 7o the other. The frame in which these spools are mounted, as seen in Figs. 1, 2 and 4, is composed of a bottom plate 18, end or side plates 21 and 21', and top plates 25 and 9,the

latter plate 9,being hinged to the upper edge of one of the side plates of the frame, so that it-may be lifted for the purpose of removing the record-strip and resting at its opposite end upon the opposite side plate, as seenin Fig. 11. The strip of paper 22 is led from'the 8o supply-spool 19 over the top of the plate 25 of the frame, as seen in Fig. 2, and thence passes to and is wound upon the spool 20. A spring 22 operating against the paperupon the supply-spool 19 maintains a proper ten- 85 sion upon the paper strip. The plate 25 over which the strip 22 is led is immediately beneath the type-wheel 5 and co-opcrates with such wheel asa platen, while the hinged plate 9 is beneath the type-Wheel 6 and co-operates 9o as a platen with said wheel. Journaled in a bracket 13 carried by the frame 1, at theleft of the type-wheels and bearing against them, as seen in Fig. f1 is an inking roller 14. The

plate 9 is provided at its opposite edges with 95 guides 26 and 27 and projects at its rear end through a horizontal slot 28 in the rear side of the casing. The plate 9 is adapted to sup` port a card or ticket inserted from the rear of the machine between the guides 2G and roo Fast upon the shaft 2 are two 55 27 and beneath a spring-clip 9, Figs. 2 and G. Upon inserting such a card or ticket and depressing the front end of the shaft 2 until it strikes the lower end of the slot 3 in the front wall of the casing the type-wheel 6 will bear against and print a number upon such card or ticket, while the type-wheel 5 will bear upon and print one of its numbers upon the paper strip 22 above the plate 25, as seen in Fig. 2. The operation of this much of the machine consists in inserting a card or ticket beneath the type-wheel G, turning the shaft 2 until the number to bev printed is exposed upon the indicator-wheel '7 at the reading opening S, and then depressing the frontend of the shaft to its limit of stroke, whereupon the number exposed to View upon t-he indicator-wheel will be printed by the type-wheels both upon the record-strip and the inserted ticket. The indicator-wheel, as shown, is secured upon the shaft 2 in such position that when any one of its numbers is brought beneath the opening S the corresponding numbers upon the type-wheels will be brought to the printing points. The spool 2O has secured upon one end a ratchet 23, Fig. l, with which co-operates a pawl 24 carried upon the front end of a bell-crank-lever 40. A spring 42 secured at one end to the short arm of said lever and at its other to apin upon the frame before described yieldingly holds the forward end of the lever 40 and the pawl 24 in the positions shown in Fig. l, anda coiled spring connected to the upper end of the pawl and to the lever 40 maintains the lower end of the pawl in engagement with the ratchet 23. When the front end of the lever 40 is depressed and released the pawl 24 will turn the ratchet and spool 20, and draw forward the paper strip 22 from the spool 19 and wind it upon the spool 20. The front end of the lever 40 is depressed at the proper time by the depression of the front end of the shaft 2, in the manner hereinafter explained, to advance the record-strip.

The frame heretofore described, which carries the two spools, is mounted to slide laterally across the machine upon a horizontal shaft 17 supported at its opposite ends in lugs l5 and 1G upon the bottom of the casing as seen in Fig. 4. A spring 35 secured at its right hand end to one of the side plates of the sliding frame, as seen in Fig. 4, and at its opposite end to a pin upon the bottom of the casing tends to pull said frame and parts carried by it to the left along the guide rod 17. Carried by the sliding frame, in this instance secured to the bottom plate thereof between and parallel with the spools which carry the record-strip is a plate 29 provided with three connected slots 30 of the shape shown in Fig. 4.

Journaled at its opposite ends in lugs 16 in the lower right hand corner of the casing, Fig. G, is a rock shaft 34 having fast upon it an arm 3l extending to the left, as seen in Fig. 4, and provided with a pin 32 which projects through the slots in the plate 29. A spring 33 coiled around the shaft 34, Fig. 6, and secured t-o a fixed point at one end and operating against the under side of the arm 3l at the other tends to lift the outer end of said arm and holdit in the position shown in Fig. 4, with the pin 32 in the upper end of one of the slots 30 in the plate 29.

Fast upon the front end of the rock-shaft 34 is a second arm 39 Figs. 3 and G, which extends to the left beneath the lower end of an arm 3G loosely hung' upon the shaft 2 and provided with a pin or screw 38 passing through a vertical slot 37 in the front wall of the casing, said screw and slot operating to guide the arm 3G in its Vertical movement when the front end of the shaft2 is depressed and lifted. Whenever the front end of said shaft is depressed, to cause thc type-wheels 5 and G to effect the printing in the manner before described, the lower end of the arm 36 will strike and depress the left hand end of the arm 39, Fig. 3, and thereby rock the shaft 34 and depress the left hand end of the arm 3l, Fig. 4, causing the pin 32 to travel downward in the left hand slot 30 in the plate 29. Vhen the pin clears the point of the shoulder at the junction of the vertical portion of the slot with theiuclined portion leading upward to the right and connecting it with the second or middle slot the spring 35 will pull the sliding frame toward the left, and when the operating shaft 2 is released and thrown upward the sliding frame will be pulled on toward the left by the spring until the pin 32 engages the upperend of the second i or middle slot and arrests the frame. At the next depression of the opcratingshaft2 the sliding frame will be moved another step toward the left and the pin 32 engaged with the upper end of the right hand slot 30 in the plate 29. The purpose of giving the sliding frame and the parts carried by it this step-by-step motion toward theleft is to cause the type-wheels to print their numbers in different columns upon the paper strip and ticket, to indicate dollars, and tens and units of cents, respectively. Thus, supposing a sale of five dollars and twenty-five cents has been made: the operator will grasp the knob 4 on the forward end of the shaft 2 and turn said shaft until the number 5 upon the indicator wheel 7 appears beneath the opening 8 in the top of the casing. This will bring the number 5 upon each of the type-wheels to the printing point at the under side of the same, as seen in Fig. 5. Upon now depressing the front end of the shaft 2 a 5 will be printed in the left hand column or space upon the record-strip and in corresponding position upon the inserted card or ticket. When the knob 4 is now released and the front end of the shaft 2 permitted to move upward the spring 35 will draw the sliding frame and the parts carried by it one step toward the left and bring the second or middle column or space upon the record-strip and ticket beneath the type-wheels. The opera- IOO IIO

innere tor will now turn the shaft 2 until the number 277 upon the type-Wheels is brought to the printing point and will then depress it and print said number upon the strip and ticket. Upon the return stroke of the shaft the sliding frame will be carried another step toward the left and the units space or column brought beneath the type-wheels, whereupon the op erator will turn the shaft until the number 5 upon the type-wheelsis brought to the printing point and will then depress the frontend of the shaft and print said number in the units column upon the strip and ticket. In this manner the record-strip and ticket are automatically moved at each operation of the machine to cause the numbers to be printed in the proper spaces upon them. The shape of the slots 30 and connecting slots in the plate 29 is such that after the sliding frame has been moved to the left-untilthe pin 32 is engaged with the upper end of the right hand slot in the plate the sliding frame may be slid by hand toward the right and the pin 32 reengaged with the upper end of the left hand slot in the plate, as seen in Fig. 4. During this movement of the frame to the right the frame 32 will travel down the inclined slot connecting the upper end of the right-hand vertical slot with the middle or second slot, and thence upward into the inclined slot connecting the middle slot with the left hand vertical slot, thence down said inclined slot and into the left hand slot, the end of thearm 3l being vibrated accordingly. The sliding frame is moved to the right by hand, at the end of an operation of the machine or preceding the next operation, by means of the plate 9 and guides 26 and 27 which project through the slot 2S in the rear side of the casing, the operator taking hold of these parts and moving the frame to the right against the stress of the spring 35. lf the next amount t0 be printed is as much as a dollar the operator will move the sliding frame into its eXtreme right hand position so that at the downward stroke of the typewheels the number at which they are set will be printed in the dollar column, if the amount to be printed exceeds nine cents but is less than a dollar,the operator will move the slide ing frame to the right only far enough to bring it toits middle position, with the pin 32 engaged with the upper end of the middle slot in the plate 29, and the column for tens of cents immediately beneath the type-wheels; while if the amount to be printed is less than ten cents he will not move the sliding frame at all but will leave it in its extreme left hand position, so that the number will be printed in the column representing units of cents. lt will be understood that the sliding 'frame is left in this latter position at the end of each operation of the machine, no matter what amount has been printed, for if the sale should have amounted to even dollars, without any cents, the operating shaft will have been depressed three times, to print the proper number in the dollar column, and a Zero in each of the other columns, thereby moving the sliding frame into its extreme left hand position.

The bell-crank-lever 40, Fig. l, which carries the actuating pawl 24 for the ratchet 23 of the storage spool 20, is provided with a rod 4l projecting to the left of it as seen in Fig. 4. This rod 4l is of such length that when the sliding frame has been moved to its extreme left hand position the end of the rod 4l will be beneath the shaft 2 or the hubs of the type-wheels 5 and 6, so that when the operating shaft is depressed to print anumber in the space or column representing units of cents the end of the arm 4l will be struck and the forward end of the bell-crank-lever 40 thrown downward, causing the pawl 24 to engage a fresh tooth of the ratchet 23, and upon the release and resetting of the shaft 2 and type-wheels and the consequent upward movement of the lever 40 under the stress of the spring 42, the pawl 24 will turn the ratchet 23 and wind up the record-strip upon the spool 20, drawing a fresh portion of the same over the plate 25 in position to be printed upon by the type-wheel 5 at. the next operation of the machine.

The operating` shaft 2 is normally locked from movement, and automatically released by the insertion of the card or ticket to be printed, in the manner and by the means to be now described. Pivoted to the inner side of the front wall of the casing at a point above the shaft 2 is a lever 43 provided with a pendent curved arm or hook 44 extending around and beneath the shaft 2, as seen in Fig. A spring 49 connected to this hook 44 pulls the hook toward the left and tends to draw it out of the path of the shaft 2, but the hook is normally held in thelocking position shown in Fig. 3 by a latch 46 which is yieldingly held in normal position, Fig. 3, by a spring not shown, and whose hooked Lipper end catches over a pin 45 projectingrfrom the side of the lever Vhen the latch is disengaged from this pin the spring 49 will throw up the left hand end of the lever 43 and carry the hook 44 out of the path of the shaft 2. Pivoted between ears 47 upon the inner face of the left hand side Wall of the casing, as seen in Fig. 6, is a horizontally arranged bellcranklever 48 whose forwardly extending arm bears at its end against the lower end of the latch 46, and the end of whose rear transversely extending arni lies immediately in front of the plate 9 over and upon which the card or ticket to be printed is placed. l/Vhen such card is pushed in to proper position its inner end will engage the end of the bell-crank-lever 4S and slightly oscillate said lever, causing its forwardly extending arm to throw the lower end of the latch 4G to the left and thereby disengage its hooked upper end from the pin 45 on the lever 43, thus releasing said lever and permitting the spring 40 to throw it upward and unlock the shaft 2, as will be readily under- IOO stood. The shaft may be re-locked by depressing the lett hand end of the lever 43 which projects outside the casing, the pin l5 riding over the beveled nose of the latch 4G and catching under the same.

Having thus fully described -our invention we claim:

l. The combination ofa type-carrier mounted upon a depressible support and axially movable to bring its different numbers to the printing point, a platen co-operating therewith, a supply reel and a storage reel, a record-strip carried upon the supply-reel and led thence over the platen and wound upon the storagereel, and means intermediate the type-carrier-support and the storage-reel for actuating the latter to advance the recordstrip.

2. The combination of a typo-carrier mounted upon a depressible support and axially movable to bring its different numbers to the printing point, a platen movable beneath the same transversely to its axis and provided with a guide-way or retaining device adapted to receive aninserted ticket and carry it with the platen, and means intermediate the typecarrier-support and platen for moving the latter and the inserted ticket transversely beneath the carrier, whereby upon inserting a ticket between the guides upon the platen and successively depressing the type-carrier the numbers upon the latter may be printed upon the ticket in diiterent spaces and the ticket be then readily withdrawn, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a type-carrier mounted upon a depressible support and axially movable to bring its different numbers to the printing point, a platen co-operating with the type-carrier and movable beneath the same transversely to its axis, a supply-reel and a storage-reel movable with the platen, a recordstrip carried upon the supply-reel and led thence over the platen and wound upon the storage-reel, and means intermediate the typecarrier-support and storage-reel for actuating the latter to advance the record-strip.

et. The combination of a type-carrier mounted upon a depressible support and axially movable to briugits different numbers to the printing` point, a platen co-operating therewith and movable transversely to its axis, a supply-reel and a storage-reel movable with the platen, a record-strip carried upon the former and led thence over the platen and wound upon the storage-reel, and means intermediate the type-carrier-support and the platen for moving the latter and the record-strip and reels transversely ot the type-carrier.

5. The combination ot a ty pe-carrier mounted upon a depressible support and axially movable to bring its different numbers to the printing point, a platen co-operating therewith and movable transversely to its axis, a supply-reel and a storage-reel movable with the platen, a recordstrip carried upon the former and led thence over the platen and wound upon the storage-reel, means intermediate the type-carrier-support and the platen for moving the latter transversely beneath the carrier, and means intermediate said type-carrier-support and the storage-reel for actuating the latter at the end of the transverse Inovement of the platen in one direction, to advance the record-strip.

6. In a cash-recording and check-printing apparatus, the combination of two type-carriers mounted upon a depressible support and axially movable in unison to bring corresponding numbers to the printing points, a recordstrip led beneath one carrier, and a platen or platens co-operatin g with said carriers, whereby upon turning the carriers to any given number and depressing them said number may be printed by one carrier upon the record-strip and by the other upon an inserted card or ticket.

7. In a cash-recording and check-printing apparatus, the combination ot two type-carriers mounted upon a depressible support and axially movable in unison to bring corresponding numbers to the printing points, two platens co-operating therewith and movable beneath the same transversely to their axes, a record-strip led between one carrier and its co-operating platen, and means intermediate the type-carrier-support and the platens for moving the latter transversely beneath the carriers, whereby upon successive operations of the type-carriers their numbers may be printed in different spaces upon the recordstrip and upon an inserted card or ticket.

8. In a ticket-printing device, the combination of a casing provided with a transverse slot or opening permitting the insertion and lateral movement of a ticket, a type-carrier mounted upon a depressible support within the casing and axially movable to bring its different numbers to the printing point, a platen co-operating with the type-carrier, and between which and the carrier the ticket is inserted, a support and guide-way for the inserted ticket movable transversely beneath the type-carrier, and means intermediate said support and the type-carrier-support for intermittently moving the inserted ticket transversely beneath the carrier at successive operations of the latter, for the purpose de scribed.

9. The combination of an axially revoluble lever, a type-carrier fast thereon, a frame movable transversely beneath the type-carrier, a platen carried by said frame, a pair of spools also carried by said frame, for holding a record-strip passed over said platen, and mechanism intermediate the lever and transversely movable frame for giving the latter a step by step motion upon successive depressions of the lever, for the purpose described.

lO. The combination of an axially revoluble lever, two type-carriers fast thereon, one for printing upon a record-strip and the other upon a card or ticket, impression platens co- IIO operating with said carriers, and a pair of spools for holding the record-stri p passed over one of said platens, whereby upon turning said lever to the proper point and depressing it the desired number may be printed both upon the record strip and upon the card or ticket.

11. The combination of an axially revoluble level', two type-carriers fast thereon, one for printing upon a record-strip and the other upon a card or ticket, aframe movable transversely beneath the type-carriers, two impression platens carried by said frame and co-operating with the respective type-carriers, a pair of spools also carried by said frame, for holding a paper strip passed over one of said platens, and mechanism intermediate said Jtransversely movable frame and the lever for giving the frame a step by step movenient at successive operations of the lever, for the purpose described.

12. The combination of an axially revoluble, depressible lever, a type-carrier fast thereon, a platen co-operating with the carrier, a pair of spools for holding a paper strip passed over said platen, a ratchet upon one of said spools, a pawl for turning said ratchet, and mechanism intermediate the paWl and operating lever for actuating the pawl upon the stroke of such lever, whereby upon turning the lever until the desired number is brought to the print-ing point and then depressing and releasing it said number will be printed upon the paper strip and the latter advanced. for the next operation.

13. In a ticket printing device, the combination of a type-carrier, a platen, an operating lever or handle, and a lock for the operating lever arranged to be released by the insertion ot' the card or ticket between the platen and type-carrier,

14. In a ticket printing device, the combination of a type-carrier, a platen, an operating lever, a locking arm or lever for said operating lever, a latch for holding such arm in locking position, and a trip for the latch operated by the insertion of the card or ticket between the platen andtype-carrier.

15. The combination cf the casing A, the framel pivoted therein,the shaft 2 journaled in the frame 1 and projecting through the slot 3 in the casing, the type-Wheel 5 fast upon said shaft, the indicator Wheel 7 also fast thereon beneath the opening 8 in the casing A, and the platen 25 co-operating with the type-Wheel 5, substantially as described.

16. The combination of the pivoted frame 1, the shaft 2 journaled therein, the type-wheel 5 fast on said shaft, the sliding frame mounted on the shaft 17, the platen 25 carried by said frame beneath the type-Wheel 5, the slotted plate 29 carried by said frame, the spring 35 acting on said frame, the rock-shaft 34, the arm 31 fast thereon and provided with the pin 32 engaging the slots in the plate 29, the arm 39 also fast on the rock-shaft 34T, and the pendent arm 36 carried by the shaft 2 and cooperating with the arm 39, substantially as described.

17. The combination of the pivoted frame 1, the shaft 2 journaled therein, the type-wheel 5 fast on said shaft, the platen 25, the spool 20 provided with the ratchet 23, the lever 40 provided With the pin 4:1, the spring 42 applied to said lever, and the pawl 21 carried by said lever and cooperating with the :ratchet 23, substantially as described.

18. The combination of the pivoted frame 1, the shaft 2 journaled therein, the type- Wheels 5 and 6 fast on said shaft, the bracket 13 on the pivoted frame, the inking roller 14 journaled in said bracket and bearing against the type-Wheels, and the platens 9 and 25 cooperating with said type-Wheels, substantially as described.

19. The combination of the pivoted frame 1, the shaft 2 j ourn aled therein, the type-Wheel 6 fast on said shaft, the platen 9 co-operating with said type-Wheel, the lever L13 provided with the locking hook let cooperating with the shaft 2, the spring 4:9, the latch 46 co-operating with the pin t5 on the lever 43, and the trip lever 47 co-operating with the latch 46 and arranged to be operated by the card or ticket inserted above the platen 9, substantially as described.

20. The combination of the casing A provided with the transverse slot 28, the platen 9 and guides 26 27 co-incident with the slot 28 and supported upon a transversely movable frame, the axially-movable depressible lever 2 projecting outside the casing, the type-carrier G fast thereon and co-operating with the plat-en 9, and means intermediate the lever 2 and platensupporting frame for intermittently moving the platen transversely beneath the type-carrier 6 at successive operations of the lever 2, substantially as and for the purpose described.

WILLIAM W.. WYTHE. WILLIAM Il. WYTHE. In presence of- WM. EDGE, Trios. S. havin,

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